STS-102
Names | Space Transportation System-102 | |
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Mission type | ISS crew rotation | |
Operator | NASA | |
COSPAR ID | 2001-010A | |
SATCAT no. | 26718 | |
Mission duration | 12 days, 19 hours, 51 minutes, 57 seconds | |
Distance travelled | 8.5 million kilometres (5.3 million miles) | |
Spacecraft properties | ||
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Discovery | |
Launch mass | 99,503 kilograms (219,367 lb) | |
Landing mass | 90,043 kilograms (198,511 lb) | |
Payload mass | 5,760 kilograms (12,700 lb) | |
Crew | ||
Crew size | 7 | |
Members |
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Start of mission | ||
Launch date | 8 March 2001, 11:42 | UTC|
Launch site | Kennedy LC-39B | |
End of mission | ||
Landing date | 21 March 2001, 07:33:06 | UTC|
Landing site | Kennedy SLF Runway 15 | |
Orbital parameters | ||
Reference system | Geocentric | |
Regime | Low Earth | |
Perigee altitude | 370 kilometres (230 mi) | |
Apogee altitude | 381 kilometres (237 mi) | |
Inclination | 51.5 degrees | |
Period | 92.1 minutes | |
Docking with PMA-2 forward)(Destiny | ||
Docking date | 10 March 2001, 06:38 UTC | |
Undocking date | 19 March 2001, 04:32 UTC | |
Time docked | 8 days, 21 hours, 54 minutes | |
The STS-102 crew portrait. |
STS-102 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery and launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. STS-102 flew in March 2001; its primary objectives were resupplying the ISS and rotating the Expedition 1 and Expedition 2 crews. At eight hours 56 minutes, the first EVA performed on the mission remains the longest spacewalk ever undertaken.
Crew
Position | Launching Astronaut | Landing Astronaut |
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Commander | James D. Wetherbee Fifth spaceflight | |
Pilot | James M. Kelly First spaceflight | |
Mission Specialist 1 | Andrew S. W. Thomas Third spaceflight | |
Mission Specialist 2 | Paul W. Richards Only spaceflight | |
Mission Specialist 3 | RKA Expedition 2 Fourth and last spaceflight ISS Commander/ISS Soyuz Commander |
William M. Shepherd Expedition 1 Fourth and last spaceflight ISS Commander |
Mission Specialist 4 | James S. Voss Expedition 2 Fifth and last spaceflight ISS Flight Engineer |
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Mission Specialist 5 | Susan J. Helms Expedition 2 Fifth and last spaceflight ISS Flight Engineer 2[2] |
RKA Expedition 1 Fifth spaceflight ISS Flight Engineer |
Spacewalks
- Voss and Helms – EVA 1
- EVA 1 Start: 11 March 2001 – 05:12 UTC
- EVA 1 End: 11 March 2001 – 14:08 UTC
- Duration: 8 hours, 56 minutes
- Thomas and Richards – EVA 2
- EVA 2 Start:13 March 2001 – 05:23 UTC
- EVA 2 End: 13 March 2001 – 11:44 UTC
- Duration: 6 hours, 21 minutes
Mission highlights
Space Station Assembly Flight ISS-5A.1 was the first use of the
External Stowage Platform
-1 mounted on its underside. ESP-1 was placed on the port side of 'Destiny' as a storage location for ORUs. The mission also included two spacewalks to relocate the units carried up by the ICC to the Destiny module exterior.
Wake-up calls
NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the
Each track is specially chosen, often by their families, and usually has a special meaning to an individual member of the crew, or is applicable to their daily activities.[3][4]Flight Day | Song | Artist/Composer |
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Day 2 | "Living the Life" | Rockit Scientists |
Day 4 | "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" | Starship |
Day 6 | " From A Distance "
|
Nancy Griffith
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Day 7 | "Free Fallin'" | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
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Day 8 | "Should I Stay or Should I Go" | The Clash |
Day 12 | "Moscow Windows" | Unknown |
See also
- List of human spaceflights
- List of International Space Station spacewalks
- List of Space Shuttle missions
- List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999
- Outline of space science
References
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (May 2008) |
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
.
- ^ "Expedition 1 Press Kit" (PDF). NASA. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2001. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
From left, they are Flight Engineer and Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev; International Space Station Commander and U.S. Astronaut Bill Shepherd; and Soyuz Commander and Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko.
- ^ "Expedition 2 Press Kit" (PDF). NASA. 6 March 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2001. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
During her four-month stay on the ISS, Helms will serve as Flight Engineer-2.
- ^ a b Fries, Colin (25 June 2007). "Chronology of Wakeup Calls" (PDF). NASA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 June 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
- ^ NASA (11 May 2009). "STS-102 Wakeup Calls". NASA. Archived from the original on 13 April 2001. Retrieved 31 July 2009.
External links
- NASA mission summary Archived 10 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- STS-102 Video Highlights Archived 4 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine